Patricia Martínez-Sánchez, Ambrosio Miralles, Rosa Sanz de Barros, Daniel Prefasi, Borja E Sanz-Cuesta, Blanca Fuentes, Gerardo Ruiz-Ares, Marta Martínez-Martínez, Elena Miñano, Juan José Arévalo-Manso, Elisa Correas-Callero, Andrés Cruz-Herranz, Exuperio Díez-Tejedor
A telestroke system was established between a community hospital lacking an on-call neurologist and a comprehensive stroke center only 13 km away. Our goal was to analyze the impact of telestroke on the number of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), door-to-needle times and stroke outcomes. An observational before-and-after study of patients with acute ischemic stroke (IS) who were attended in a community hospital during the 2 years before the telestroke system was implemented (pre-telestroke group) and the first 2 years after telestroke was established (telestroke group)...
September 2014: Journal of Neurology